Your path to business agility
IT PMO groups are under constant pressure to prioritize the “right” projects, balance new incoming demand with their current work load and optimize the use of their resources. Here’s the collection of the greatest hits of 2015 (so far)… I really like these assets because they give IT PMO leaders practical insights, best practices, tips,...
Technology and globalization are driving a need for improved collaboration and project management across teams, but what about those individuals who must keep track of project status, timelines, and documents and ensure projects are seen through to completion? How is the typical accidental project manager dealing with the “get more done with less” concept? And who’s...
As a business leader, your job is to set strategic initiatives and grow the business. The conundrum is how to reconcile capacity and demand to determine what your organization can accomplish while adapting to constant change. Here’s some information on solving resource capacity problems. In a recent study, a group of 480 leaders and executives...
Collaborating across multiple departments, geographies, and time zones can take a toll on productivity. According to resent research, professionals across the U.S. and Europe are wasting weeks a year on ineffective project collaboration. European collaboration study: Project managers admit to wasting an average of 2 hours and 45 minutes a week due to inefficient practices,...
Based on The 2014 Resource Management and Capacity Planning Report Some of you may be skeptical at the title of my blog post. Can the resource dilemma be solved and even mastered? You’re not alone if the norm at your organizations looks like this: resources are always overcommitted, no one ever says “no”, and you’ve...
Productivity and the efficient use of resources is attained when the right resources are working on the right projects at the precisely the right time. No matter if you’re in IT, the PMO, marketing, or in a professional service organization, resources are specialized, shared, and matrixed – making effective resource management a complicated goal! You need...
What do analysts see when all the data points to a looming talent shortage for professional services? They research what best-in-class organizations are doing to combat the problem. In this particular instance, Service Performance Insight gleaned from their annual PS Maturity Benchmark study that organizations that had technology tools with three attributes fared considerably better...
Results of SPI Research’s 2014 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark™ Reveals Capacity Concerns: Find a Cure in Information Infrastructure With near record growth rates, professional services (PS) executives continue their emphasis on increasing both revenue and profit. In SPI Research’s recent benchmark (the 2014 Professional Services Maturity Benchmark is available for free here) we have seen...
More than 500 product development professionals participated in a global survey on the state of product portfolio management in Europe. The outcome is the Fourth Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Study which provides product development executives key trends into the priorities, risks, and pain points as well as perspective into how they compare to their peers....
The findings from the Fourth Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Study and the Innovation Management Maturity Model™ have spawned some important dialog around innovation maturity for medical devices firms and across multiple industries. In a recent article published Dec 3 on Medical Design Online, Jim Pomager poses the question, “Does the medical devices industry have an...
